This is hardly a comprehensive article, more like a sound bite which cannot give a full idea of the scope of Petraeus' lies, damn lies and statistics.

A good story about the new journalism, and the direction it may evolve, with TPM and JM Marshall as ground-breakers. This story is a necessary offset to the idiotic rantings against bloggers you get to hear in the MSM.

This is an editorial or op/ed piece, hence it is highly impressionistic. But, nonetheless, the point that the MSM is concentrating on Hillary is true...and Obama comes a close second. Edwards, who has more to say, is being relegated to also-ran status. He has the distinction of being a traitor to his class, and as such is being given the Kerry/Gore treatment.

Very few people realize that most original scientific research is actually done at universities, and then acquired by private companies when the post docs go to work for them. A lot of professors also start up small research firms funded by these government grants, and then sell the patent rights to big firms, such as pharmaceuticals. The universities get a cut of the action, but it is usually a one shot disbursement. The private firms cough up the money for the patenting. Most research done at pharmaceuticals goes to figuring out how to recycle a drug with an expiring patent (look to Prilosec which became Nexium!) with a so called "novel" use for a new patent (say, from ulcers to GERD). A lot more money is spent on ... More »

The story is a good review of the book, but not an "article" in the sense that it does not examine Bryan Caplan's premises--forinstance, that every economist knows "he average person actually benefits from market competition, which provides the best product at the lowest price; from free trade with other countries, which (for American consumers) usually lowers the cost of labor and thus the price of goods; and from technological change, which redistributes labor from less productive to more productive enterprises." Economists may know this, but economists are talking about average persons as consumers only, not as producers/laborers. Hence the information of the economists is faulty. The average person's assessment of economic ... More »

no, it is even mediocre commentary. Instead of repeating what is better said elsewhere:http://haloscan.com/tb/sedationbaby/3253711691126242080